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Excited to make it into Cleveland Magazine with a bunch of our cool friends. Mediahead Video Games & Movies

Cleveland Logs Off in a Growing Analog Movement VHS tapes, instant cameras, vinyl records and CRT TVs are having a comeback. Meet the Northeast Ohio businesses, educators and curators who are centering analog tech and physical media.

The Killer Video Fall Event Schedule has dropped. We’re dialing things in with a jam-packed season of live wrestling, flashback screenings, celebrity guests, dead media markets, and killer Halloween parties. Check out the full lineup below!

Here’s what’s coming down the wire:

AUG 29 | Rewind or Die: CZW Wrestling & Video Store Pop-Up
Location: Penguin City Brewery

Live CZW Wrestling, Predator & They Live Double Feature, Crypt Video Rentals pop-up, vendor market, VHS swap, live tattoos, and craft beer!

SEP 19 | The Prowler 45th Anniversary Screening
Location: The West Theater

Featuring a live Q&A and Meet & Greet with star Cindy Weintraub!

SEP 27 | Dead Media Market 7
Location: Missing Falls Brewery

The ultimate market for physical media lovers—shop tapes, vinyl, retro collectibles, and obscure gems.

OCT 10 | Akron Independent Horror Short Film Festival
Location: The Akron Civic Theatre

Celebrating indie horror filmmakers on the grandest stage in town!

OCT 31 | Trick or Treat 40th Anniversary Screening & Halloween Party
Location: The West Theater

Screening with LIVE commentary from Marc Price AND live soundtrack from Midnite Hellion + our annual Halloween Bash!

MONTHLY | Horror Trivia Night

First Thursday of every month @ Penguin City Brewery

Last Monday of every month @ Hoppin’ Frog Brewery

🎟️ Tickets, info, and details at: www.killer-video.com

The final countdown is on, horror fans!

Only 10 DAYS LEFT to submit your short films to the Akron Independent Horror Short Film Festival! Don’t let this opportunity for $2,000 IN CASH PRIZES vanish into the shadows.

We are a festival celebrating horror and our unique Ohio connections. To submit, your film must meet ONE of these criteria:

Filmed within the State of Ohio.

Filmed outside of Ohio, but at least ONE member of your cast or crew is an Ohio native or current resident! ️

Old classic? Brand new terror? No problem! There are NO restrictions on when your project was created. If your film meets the Ohio connection above, we want to see it, regardless of its vintage!

🕒 DEADLINE: August 15th, 2026.

https://filmfreeway.com/AkronIndependentHorrorShortFilmFestival

Join us tomorrow in historic Akron, Ohio as we help our friends at EarthQuaker Devices celebrate the 10th Anniversary of EarthQuaker Day Saturday, August 1st!

We’ll be set up from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. with a ton of KV Merch and info about all our upcoming events and museum expansion. You can even grab a cold KVxHF beer from our friends at . Stop by and say hi!

EarthQuaker Day is FREE, family-friendly, and all are welcome to come check out the clinics, live music, shop tours, special sales, gear vendors, food trucks, and more!

Visit earthquakerday.com for more details.

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We have zero reproductions, replicas, or reprints here in the museum, everything is 100% original. With that being said this lightbox had a KV logo in it for the better part of the year because we didn’t have a horror themed insert for it. We were so stoked when this Student Bodies came up for sale. It’s one of the few horror inserts and it’s got a lot of history of its own.

Student Bodies was released in 1981 and is one of the very first horror comedy satires. Some call it a precursor to the Scary Movie Franchise. The villain is called “The Breather,” and they even put a kill count on the screen for the deaths. In the 90’s it made it onto USA Up All Night with , helping its cult following continue to grow.

Dead Media Market 6 was an absolute whirlwind. It’s a day that I get to be immersed in the best environment of friends new and old, patrons, media and straight up good vibes. We now have visitors and vendors coming from out of state to be part of this event and it’s all for the love of dead media, connections, and friendships. Over half of this haul was donations and amazing deals that allow the museum to acquire and preserve these items for the community to be able to see and learn about in person. We are also working on digitizing and archiving everything as true historical artifacts. Thank you to everyone that came out, spread the word, shopped, traded, sold, posted, tagged and made the event possible. This is one of the biggest fundraisers that supports the museum and we can’t do it without y’all.

and hooked up the amazing 86-87 Media Home Video catalog, Fuji Blank Tape Display and crispy copy of Horror Workout, dropped the fire spread of Creepshow original drawings and cells, hooked up the lot of Full Moon promotions, Critters pin, and that gangster 92 calendar. laid all the beta tapes, PC Games, Troma promo, and our new skinny boy pumpkin blow mold. came through with the Evil Dead PS game and a fat stack of donated sealed blanks. donated an insane amount of the blanks. Brian Mattoni blessed us with a crazy deal on the Standees, hooked up the Blair Witch Poster, and came in with an entire lot of Rental Posters. The Trinitron was a donation from a complete stranger named Josh that loved the museum. donated Johnny Mnemonic. and hooked up the making of T2. Mustafa brought absolute fire in the sealed first print vinyl soundtracks for Return Of The Living Dead and Dawn Of The Dead. rounded out our VHS hall. Lastly, and came with all the promo jacket heat but I settled for The Blob promo hand warmer. Time to get cracking on framing, displaying, and curating. Mark your calendars for Dead Media Market 7 Sunday September 27th.